Neferti Tadiar

Professor Tadiar provided no feedback on any work throughout the semester and was very vague about expectations yet still a harsh grader. The readings were interesting but the disorganization of the course was not worth it.

I would take a bullet for Professor Tadiar. Her conceptual precision and rigor will make you a better writer and a much better thinker. So grateful for her teaching and insight.

Neferti Tadiar is an amazing teacher and lecturer. She is not afraid share her opinions in class and is an overall awesome professor who texts Angela Davis because they are friends. Even though this is a women's studies class, I feel like I read so many seminal words related to gender, race, identity, colonialism, and globalization. The concepts I learned from reading Marx, Althusser, Fanon, etc. I was able to apply in a number of different classes. This class should not be a lecture, because there is almost no discussion on really provocative topics, the large number of people mean that the grading isn't too bad. Just make sure you meet with the TAs about paper topics (you can literally write about anything -- I wrote a paper on racist sororities).

Professor Tadiar co-taught this course with Professor Alice Kessler-Harris and two TA's, but she was by far the most interesting, engaging, and articulate lecturer of the four. She has a knack for presenting complicated material in a very clear, succinct, and yet nuanced way. She is also a very nice and very approachable person outside of class, if you can get over your initial awe at her brilliance. She is easily one of my favorite professors at Columbia.

Professor Tadiar is by far one of the best professors I've had at Columbia. She really knows her stuff, is sharp and very articulate. She is also very good at moderating class discussions in a manner that I think is beneficial to everyone. If you have a chance to take any of her classes, I highly recommend it.

I have mixed reviews about this class. Professor Tadiar is without a doubt fantastic - she's super sweet, incredibly knowledgable, a great lecturer and really knows her stuff. This class is also great in that it teaches you to think differently about things. That being said, though, please be warned that this class is hard. The readings are extremely long, dense, and they are difficult concepts. She goes through them the best she can in class but she can't get to all of them and even though she talks about them they can be incredibly confusing. If you slack off in this class you will be sorry. If you want to work really hard and come out with new "critical perspectives" and actually learn something, this class is for you. If you don't like doing really long, dense readings and writing difficult papers I wouldn't recommend this class. It can be really daunting at times.

Prof. Tadiar is easily one of the most intelligent and articulate professors at Columbia. She knows her material inside out, but she is good at letting students explain what they think about the material, and engage with each other. Possibly my favorite class at Columbia and I am a senior. I would recommend any class with her. She is an extremely fair grader. She co-taught Women's and Gender Studies with Prof. Kessler-Harris and she definitely outshone Prof. K-H, which is no easy task because she is also quite good. This isn't necessarily an easy class but if you work hard, she will notice.

This is by far one of the best classes I have ever taken. Professor Tadiar is absolutely brilliant and unbelievably sweet and understanding. Every assigned reading is relevant to the course in some way and there are so many connections between them that you will have no trouble writing papers or preparing for exams so long as you go to class (which boosts your grade by the way) and do at least some of the readings (though I really recommend that you try to do all of them - I regret that I didn't for reasons that have nothing to do with my grade). This semester the class was pretty big so there wasn't much opportunity for discussion in our weekly meetings (that happened in the bi-weekly discussion sections), so the class is structured like a lecture pretty much although Professor Tadiar does open the floor up to questions and comments. She really cares a lot about the way that we can make connections between the theories we read about and our own lived experiences (that is basically what we are asked to do when writing papers), and I personally got a lot out of the class because I now have new lenses through which I can understand sexism, racism, capitalism, cissexism, etc. The workload is pretty tough. She estimates on the syllabus that we should expect to read 100-120 pages per week... on some weeks it is much more while on others it is a lot less (and keep in mind that this…

Lots of reading, but it's not necessary to do them all and still get an A. Weekly Courseworks postings, a paper, a media file presentation, and a final exam.

Professor Tadiar is a goddess. This class completely changed the way I approach learning and thinking. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to do the readings. Whether or not you understand them, you will benefit from at least knowing what each one talks about. Now, that's a tall order. It's a very reading-heavy course. But Professor Tadiar has organized the syllabus in such an interesting and interconnected way that at the end of the semester, you'll still find new connections between texts. Class can be very intimidating. As in many Barnard classes, there is a handful of confident, vocal students who will comment the most. It took me a little while to feel comfortable raising my hand, especially because Tadiar has no reservations about questioning your logic. To succeed in this course, I highly recommend seeing her during office hours, particularly before an essay is due. She is immensely helpful in argument-structuring, and will point you in a more focused direction. She also will learn your name this way, and it somehow makes class more comfortable. This was maybe one of the most challenging classes I've taken thus far, but the payoff was so worth it. I love Tadiar, I loved this class, and I'm all the better for having taken it.